Some just say ignore copyright law – rip, mix, burn This is ok if you’re an private user, or an obscure artist – can choose to take risk But doesn’t work for schools, libraries, museums, charities, academics, short film makers entering into competitions, DJs releasing a commercial CD etc Plus, the music labels and hollywood are suing people now – and in the UK they’re threatening to cut off people’s internet connections.

So – looking at how the CC licences are being used According to the latest statistics from the CC website, there are currently about 140million webpages that use a CC licence As you can see, almost all of them contain the BY element – that’s because it was made compulsory for all the licences except the public domain licences after the first year, because pretty much everybody was using it anyway The majority also, unsurprisingly, choose the non-commercial element Interestingly, next most popular is ShareAlike, not noderivatives – this shows that there is still a strong focus on fostering creativity among CC community, and that, rather than trying to lock their material up, people are happy for it to be remixed, as long as the new work is also sharedEven more interesting is how these statistics are changing over time Even more interestingly – if you look at how the licences is being used over time, people are gradually moving towards more liberal licences with less restrictions on them This movement seems to indicate that as people become more familiar with the licences, they are more comfortable allowing greater use This is supported by anecdotal evidence from CC users who, after initially publishing their material under restrictive licences that don’t allow derivatives, often ‘re-release’ their material to allow new works

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<ul><li>Cerca de 160 million de objetos en Internet </li></ul><ul><li>Cerca de 80 millones de fotos solo en Flickr </li></ul>Thank you for sharing by Clearly Ambiguous available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/39896923/ under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence